• An electrostatic analyzer or ESA is an instrument used in ion optics that employs an electric field to allow the passage of only those ions or electrons...
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    dual-channel, curved-plate electrostatic analyzer (LEPEDEA - low energy proton and electron differential energy analyzer) with 16 energy intervals between...
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    provided useful data for only the first six days after launch. An electrostatic analyzer and an E-cross-B velocity selector normal to the spacecraft spin...
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    the boom to reduce magnetic noise from the spacecraft. EESA is an electrostatic analyzer designed to measure the energies, fluxes, and masses of suprathermal...
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    focussed according to their kinetic energy by a 1272 mm radius 90° electrostatic sector. A mechanically-operated slit provides fine-tuning of the energy...
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    basic analyzers available: sector, quadrupole, and time-of-flight. A sector field mass spectrometer uses a combination of an electrostatic analyzer and...
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    experiment operated throughout the active lifetime of the spacecraft. An electrostatic analyzer with a current collector was used to investigate boundary phenomena...
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  • electron analyzer, analogous to the way an optical lens assists in the transport of light in an optical instrument. Systems of electrostatic lenses can...
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    until the spacecraft decayed from orbit on 23 December 1972. An electrostatic analyzer and an E-cross-B velocity selector normal to the spacecraft spin...
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    launch, scientists found that the Scanning Electrostatic Analyzer had failed because a door shielding the analyzer did not open. An unsuccessful attempt was...
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  • electric charge, potential difference Electroscope, electric charge Electrostatic analyzer, kinetic energy of charged particles Ellipsometer, optical refractive...
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    The instrument also has top-hat symmetrical spherical section electrostatic analyzers (ES) with microchannel plate detectors (MCPs) are used to measure...
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    Sun Solar Probe Analyzers (SPAN) SPAN-Ai: ion electrostatic analyzer (ESA) on the ram side SPAN-Ae: electron electrostatic analyzer on the ram side SPAN-B:...
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    included a Lyman-alpha telescope, a rubidium-vapor magnetometer, electrostatic analyzers, medium-energy range particle detectors, two triple coincidence...
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    included a Lyman-alpha telescope, a rubidium-vapor magnetometer, electrostatic analyzers, medium-energy-range particle detectors, two triple coincidence...
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    activity and interplanetary processes. The detectors used were: (1) an electrostatic analyzer (to select particles of the designated energy per charge) combined...
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    A hemispherical electron energy analyzer or hemispherical deflection analyzer is a type of electron energy spectrometer generally used for applications...
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    the 70 meter Deep Space Station 43 in Australia. The MIT and ARC Plasma Analyzers, as well as the cosmic ray detector from the University of Chicago, were...
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    special periods. This experiment used cylindrical curved-plate electrostatic analyzers in conjunction with channel electron multipliers to study ion and...
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    targeted through the mass analyzer and into the detector. The differences in masses of the fragments allows the mass analyzer to sort the ions by their...
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    advantage of only the ion energy-per-charge as measured by the electrostatic analyzer, and the ion energy as measured by solid-state detectors. This has...
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    identical instruments, including a fluxgate magnetometer (FGM), an electrostatic analyzer (ESA), a solid state telescope (SST), a search-coil magnetometer...
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    a Geiger counter, an electrostatic analyzer measuring particles in the 1-100 KeV range, and a NASA produced magnetic analyzer. The other two experiments...
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    provided by University of California, Berkeley. Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) an electrostatic analyzer to measure cusp electrons from 40 eV to 10 keV...
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    neutral species. As opposed to TOF analyzers, electrostatic analyzers achieve ion energy resolution using electrostatic deflectors to direct only ions of...
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    included a Lyman-alpha telescope, a rubidium-vapor magnetometer, electrostatic analyzers, medium-energy-range particle detectors, two triple coincidence...
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    edu Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) is a toroidal electrostatic analyzer and retarding potential analyzer (RPA), that makes up one of the two instruments...
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    whenever it would decay to about 250 km (160 mi). The Miniature Electrostatic Analyzer (MESA) obtained data on the neutral density of the atmosphere in...
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    multiple photometers, polarimeters, a magnetometer, plasma traps, an electrostatic analyzer, a gamma-ray spectrometer, and a radio probe. Built by Lavochkin...
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    January 2003. Its payload was the MESA instrument (Miniaturized electrostatic Analyzer), which would have been used to sample plasma in the upper atmosphere...
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